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BM>True. As fast as the human nervous system is the lightening strike is
BM>faster.
DS> And, it's on the same principle as the defibrillators for those suffering
DS> a heart attack...an electrical jolt either puts the
DS> heart back in rhythm, or stops it. I have to wonder why potholes
DS> don't put your vehicle back into alignment. <G>
Because two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!
BM>One of those things were being careful doesn't help. Of course one
BM>should be careful but also can't live in fear. (Thinking the prudent
BM>thing would be to walk around in a portable Faraday Cage -- know that's
BM>for RF, thing it's the same to disharge voltage. Not at all practical.)
DS> My apartment seems like an ungrounded Faraday cage, the way
DS> lightning dances around here during thunderstorms. Rumor has it
DS> that when they built this place over 40 years ago as a prototype,
DS> they only grounded at the meter, and nowhere else...or didn't
DS> ground at all. One strike over 10 years ago, did some damage to
DS> my alarm system, but thankfully, the rest of my stuff was
DS> unplugged. Other residents in my building, and adjacent ones,
DS> were taking electronics of every sort to the dumpster, as the
DS> surge had spread out so far!!
Not good, and living in an apartment doesn't give access to the things
one needs to properly ground. I had an ungrounded outlet in my
apartment -- easy fix probably would have been to shut off the power
and tighten the ground screw except the circuit breakers were in the
common hallway (locked).
BM>Not quite as good but I've happened to have lived east of where I work.
BM>Go to work in the morning: sun's at my back. Come home from work, sun's
BM>at my back.
DS> I hate having to wear multiple sets of sunglasses...and at
DS> night, some of those halogen lights of the oncoming cars are
DS> blinding.
Agree. Dad had taught me in that situation to look at the right side of
the lane. Sufficient peripheral vision to see oncoming traffic but
keeps the glare down. Plus by consciously looking to the right one
doesn't absent-mindedly focus on the bright object.
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